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1 hour ago, HenryJames said:

 

Well, I suspect it all comes back to the fact that "massive tariffs here there and everywhere" is the dumbest economic approach this country has taken in nearly 100 years.  It is idiotic, has always been idiotic, has been proven to be idiotic, so of course....a cadre of idiots is JUST the group to give it another try.

We are a nation that owes its existence to global trade: there'd be no "New World" (that is, a North America colonized by and then independent from European powers) without the GLOBAL quest for spices, gold, silver, cotton, tobacco, etc.  the British Empire didn't ban the trade of tea, tobacco, cotton, precious metals from outside Great Britain in some idiotic quest to "make Britain great again."  Trade MADE the British Empire.  Trade MADE the US.  And here we go, crushing the fuck out of it because we are run by a bunch of xenophobic, nativist fucking morons.

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The theory of comparative advantage has been around for over two hundred years. Nearly one hundred years ago the U.S. found out what happens when you implement a policy counter to that theory with the Smoot-Hawley fuck up. 

Yet, here we are again.

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5 minutes ago, F250 said:

The theory of comparative advantage has been around for over two hundred years. Nearly one hundred years ago the U.S. found out what happens when you implement a policy counter to that theory with the Smoot-Hawley fuck up. 

Yet, here we are again.

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Exactly.  I mean, the fact that we've literally TRIED this brand of idiocy before, and every economist with two brain cells to rub together concluded "yeah, that was a massive fuckup," and now we're doing the "but it might work for us" routine is fucking maddening.

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13 hours ago, miguelito said:

"even with tariffs"?

Not "because of"?

Good point. Politico is a newspaper with a primary concern of sucking up to republicans -- just not as much so as axios or morning call -- so for something like a negative report about tariffs they probably feel a need to acknowledge that republicans are so stupid they legit thought tariffs would be a great thing. 

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3 hours ago, HenryJames said:

 

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China has not purchased any U.S. soybean cargoes from this autumn's harvest. The window for U.S. soybean purchases is rapidly closing as buyers secure shipments through November, largely from Brazil and Argentina, helped by Argentina's brief tax holiday.

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On 10/17/2025 at 1:22 PM, Brisketexan said:

Well, I suspect it all comes back to the fact that "massive tariffs here there and everywhere" is the dumbest economic approach this country has taken in nearly 100 years.  It is idiotic, has always been idiotic, has been proven to be idiotic, so of course....a cadre of idiots is JUST the group to give it another try.

We are a nation that owes its existence to global trade: there'd be no "New World" (that is, a North America colonized by and then independent from European powers) without the GLOBAL quest for spices, gold, silver, cotton, tobacco, etc.  the British Empire didn't ban the trade of tea, tobacco, cotton, precious metals from outside Great Britain in some idiotic quest to "make Britain great again."  Trade MADE the British Empire.  Trade MADE the US.  And here we go, crushing the fuck out of it because we are run by a bunch of xenophobic, nativist fucking morons.

Turnip isn’t affected by tariffs since he’s sitting on the treasury. 

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Posted
8 hours ago, SubliminalHorn said:

Who’s that woke soy boy?

Never forget the fact that in this timeline, if you dropped the actual Ronald Reagan in it, saying, doing, and believing EXACTLY what the real Ronnie did, but you gave him a different name, he would be universally reviled by MAGA as a woke commie libtard soy boy.  Zero hyperbole, they would hate him with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns.

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5 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Never forget the fact that in this timeline, if you dropped the actual Ronald Reagan in it, saying, doing, and believing EXACTLY what the real Ronnie did, but you gave him a different name, he would be universally reviled by MAGA as a woke commie libtard soy boy.  Zero hyperbole, they would hate him with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns.

Which is the biggest "overton window has shifted" evidence and all you really need because in the 00's to liberals Ronald Reagan was the most right-wing, conservative devil to have ever governed.

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8 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

Which is the biggest "overton window has shifted" evidence and all you really need because in the 00's to liberals Ronald Reagan was the most right-wing, conservative devil to have ever governed.

Dude.  There is no overton window anymore.  There's a busted frame and glass in the rubble of a building 10,000 miles away from where we are today.

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Here's a crazy idea, and I'm just spitballing here...  Instead of sending out tariff relief checks, how about we fund Healthcare?  Or even pay down some of that monster debt we have accruing?

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5 hours ago, Macanudo said:

Here's a crazy idea, and I'm just spitballing here...  Instead of sending out tariff relief checks, how about we fund Healthcare?  Or even pay down some of that monster debt we have accruing?

How is any of that going to help you at the horse track?



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